[152] Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention, p. 300, et seq.
[153] This objection was, in part, the cause of the refusal of the delegate of the Longshoremen's Union to install his local. Cf. infra, p. 102.
[154] Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention, p. 427.
[155] Ibid., p. 496.
[156] Vide I. W. W. Constitution, 1911, art. i, sec. 4, and Trautmann, One Great Union, Detroit, I. W. W. Literary Bureau, n. d. (Chart insert).
[157] Art. vii, sec. 4, Constitution (1905), "So soon as there are ten locals with not less than 3,000 members in one industry, the General Executive Board shall immediately proceed to call a convention of that industry and proceed to organize it as an international industrial division of the Industrial Workers of the World."
[158] The office of general president was abolished at the second convention. Vide infra, p. 143.
[159] Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention, p. 504.
[160] Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention, p. 455.
[161] 42,719 to 6,998. Proceedings, First I. W. W Convention, pp. 609-614.